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title: Aro then took up some more fire, and Agbor put the same question to… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Aro then took up some more fire, and Agbor put the same question to her again, and the fire Aro was holding went out a second time. Who acts: Aro, Agbor, fire. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 24

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Aro then took up some more fire, and Agbor put the same question to her again, and the fire Aro was holding went out a second time.

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**Who acts:** Aro, Agbor, fire · **What happens:** take up, put, hold, go out · **To what, where:** more fire, same question, fire

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aro, Agbor, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg70959:3:24
# text = Aro then took up some more fire, and Agbor put the same question to her again, and the fire Aro was holding went out a second time.
1	Aro	Aro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	Aro	Aro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Aro | some more fire |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | Agbor | the same question | fire |  | again |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |
| 3 | **hold** | past · progressive | Aro | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **go out** | past | the fire |  |  |  | time |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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